Cancer Research UK is very positive about the efficacy of engaging the public in research. “Our Citizen Science products can help our scientists to conduct their research much faster. Cell Slider answered one of the key questions of a large breast cancer trial in a third of the time it would have taken a research team alone. If we can repeat this for other trials and other studies, we could start to see these insights change the way doctors treat these cancers within years. Although the data we’ve analyzed to date is all breast cancer data, both Cell Slider and Genes in Space are suitable for analyzing data from a range of different tumor types. We want to use the power of the public to fight other cancers in the future.”